I expect you’ve been feeling the pressure to make the right decisions as events unfold in this Covid crisis. Who should we bring back from Furlough? How should we arrange the office? What business should we go after? What assumptions should we make? What does our...

If you’ve been flat out in crisis mode or adjusting to home working with your kids running about the place, I suspect the last thing you’ve been thinking about as a leader is your own personal development. However, some of my conversations with clients have still been...

We often find ourselves coming around to the subject of operational noise in discussions we have with senior managers. It’s the stuff that swims around in your head, the constant interruptions that prevent you taking a step back to think about the bigger picture. It’s...

I talked last month about the work that Google did around effective teams and how one of their Site Reliability Managers created a High Performing Team of his own. I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt and asking some questions about implementation – and what to do...

What comes to mind when you think about your experiences of being part of a team? Have they been like a well-oiled machine that delivers the results, followed by high fives all round? Or are they better described as a meeting factory where the loudest person in the...